The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

What else is soul but a listener?

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

Horror movies are all about getting your attention you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.

Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.

Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.